List of Old English Words in the OED/GR

Old English	sp	English
Graith	n.	(Obs.)a state of preparation, condition, readiness, good order, arrangement, proper order, without delay. 2. equipment in general, apparel, attire, article of dress, clothes, gear. 3. armour, harness. 4 possessions in general, wealth, money. 5. things, stuff, accoutrements, materials, equipment, furniture, etc. 6. "the graith :the truth.
Graith	vb	To make ready, prepare, arrange, disentangle”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną ‎(“to prepare, put in order”). Cognate with Old English ġerǣdan ‎'to arrange, dispose, order, provide for, harness". 2. (obs) to make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.  3. (obs) to dress (someone or oneself) or be dressed.
Graith	adj	"Do in Graith" - to put into readiness.
Graith	phr	"Graith in the Grave" - give burial to.
Graith	phr	"In Graith" - in proper order.
Graith	phr	"Out of Graith" - out of order.
Graithful	adj	Prompt, speedy, ready.
Graithing	n	Prearition, furnishing. 2. furniture, attire.
Graithness	n	Readiness, prompitude.
Grame	n.	Anger, wrath, ire, grief. 2. sorrow, harm, troubles.
Gramely	adj	Wrathful, angrily, furiously, grievous.
Grass	n	Herbage, plants grown for cattle to eat, to cover lawns; turf; pasture for grazing cattle. 2. an old usage for spring or early summer, the time when grass grows as in, 'she is five years old this grass'. 3. a police informer (slang).
Grass	vb	To lay out on the grass; to knock down. 2(slang) to act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. 3. to cover with grass or with turf. 4. to expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc. 5. to bring to the grass or ground; to land; as 'to grass a fish'.
Grass	phr	"As Green as Grass" - naive, immature, inexperienced, easily deceived.
Grass	phr	"Give Grass" - to yield, surrender.
Grass	phr	"Go to Grass" - be stuck in the ground.
Grass	phr	"Grass is Always Greener in an Other Man's Field" - a saying: people are inclined to think that in another country, things are better, happier than in his own country.
Grass	phr	"Grass On Somebody" - inform on somebody to the police or authorities.
Grass	phr	"Grass Up" - see 'grass on'
Grass	phr	"Green as Grass" - naive, inexperienced.
Grass	phr	"Keep Off the Grass" - allow the grass to grow & stop smoking "grass": marijuana.
Grass	phr	"Let the Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - procrastinate, waste time.
Grass	phr	"Not Let Grass Grow Under One's Feet" - not let inertia or delay spoil something.
Grass	phr	Pluck the Grass to Know Where the Wind Sits - interpret signs of the times.
Grass	phr	"Put Out to Grass" - make somebody retire from work, or some other activity or pursuit.
Grass	phr	"Snake in the Grass" - somebody who is deceitful, untrustworthy.
Grass	phr	"Under the Grass" - dead, in the grave, tomb.
Grass-bed	n	The grave.
Grass-blade	n	A narrow leaf of a grass. 2. the thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem.
Grass-cloth	n	A wall covering made for fibres of jute, rushes or other grasses.
Grass-eater	n	(Slang and ethic slur) a white person , esp. Irish (green) persons. 2. a law enforcement person who accepts bribes. 3. a herbivore, or similar grazing, phoephagous animal, as a yak. 4. a vegan or vegetarian.
Grasser	n	A grass or police informer.
Grass-feeding	n	Graminovorous.
Grassfire	n	A fire burning over grass or grassland.
Grassgreen	adj	The color of grass; green as grass.
Grassgrown	adj	Overgrown with grass.
Grasshopper	n	Jumping, chirping insect. 2. fig, a term of derision or reproach, noisy & flighty.
Grasshopper-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a grasshopper.
Grassiness	n	The state or character of being grassy.
Grassland	n	Land producing grass. 2. pasture or grazing land. 3. land reserved for pasturage or mowing. 4. land in which grass grows abundantly, as the American prairies.
Grassless	adj	Lacking or devoid of grass.
Grasslike	adj	That has the characteristic of grass.
Grassy	adj	Covered with grass. 2. resembling grass.
Grass-roots	n	The rural section of a country; the hinterland. 2. used to denote that which is rooted in the earth, i.e. that which has its origins among the peasantry or common folk.
Grass-roots	adj	Of or pertaining to the rural section of a country. 2. ordinary but influential members of a group or organization. 3. the basic level, the natural, or popular sources from which a society, art, political system, etc must draw its strength.
Grass-silver	n	Money paid for the agistment of animals.
Grass-snake	n	Harmless British snake
Grass-widow	n	Wife whose husband is away from her; sometimes one takes on lovers in his absence. 2. a woman who is separated from her husband for causes other than death. 3. a woman whose husband is temporarily absent.
Grass-widower	n	A husband whose wife is away from him; sometimes who one takes on lovers in her absence. 2. a husband who is separated from his wife for causes other than death.
Grass-widowhood	n	The condition where a wife whose husband is away from her; and she sometimes takes on lovers in his absence. 2. the state where a woman who is separated from her husband for causes other than death. 3. cuckoldry.
Grassy	adj	Covered or abounding with grass. 2. consisting of grass; resembling grass in colour and smell. 3. pertaining to, consisting of or resembling grass.
Grave	n	Hole or excavation dug for a dead body; monument on this; death. 2. place of burial; a tomb. 3. 'The grave" - Hades, death or ruin. 3. the abode of the dead.
Grave	vb	To carve with a chisel, engrave, sculpture. 2. to impress deeply , as in the memory.
Grave	phr	"Bear a Mark to one's Grave" - all one's life.
Grave	phr	"Dig One's Own Grave" - be in difficulty because of one's own misguided actions.
Grave	phr	"Dig the Grave Of" - to cause ruin, downfall, the end of a person or thing.
Grave	phr	"Enough to Make One Turn in Their Grave" - said when something happens to which the deceased person would have strongly objected.
Grave	n	"Find One's Grave" - to meet one's death.
Grave	phr	"Grave the Ship" - to burn accretions and filthy substances from the bottom of a ship.
Grave	phr	"Have One Foot in the Grave": of persons: old and often sickly; to dig the grave of: to ruin, cause downfall of, the end of person. 2. to be dying.
Grave	phr	"Into the Grave of Hell" - into the lowest depth.
Grave	phr	"Someone is Walking on My Grave" - feeling of uneasiness that causes one to shiver.
Grave	phr	"To the Grave" - till or until death.
Grave-born	adj	Born of a grave, as a 'ghost'.
Grave-cloth	n	Pall of the coffin.
Grave-clothes	n	The clothes or wrapping in which a dead body is interred..
Grave-digger	n	One who digs grave as an occupation.
Grave-digging	n	The occupation of digging grave.
Grave-field	n	Burial place, cemetery, necropolis, still-hill, grave-ground.
Grave-ground	n	Burail place, cemetery, necropolis, still-hill, grave-ground..
Grave-hill	n	Cemetery and or grave on a hill; still-hill.
Graveless	adj	Without a grave; not buried or interred.
Grave-like	adj	resembling a grave or tomb. 2. sobre, gloomy, morbid.
Gravemaker	n	A monumental mason.
Graveman	n	Sexton
Gravemarker	n	A gravestone or other permanently fixed object to indicate the location of a grave.
Grave-mound	n	Burial mound, also grave-barrow, grave-hillock, tumulus, barrow, indicating site of interment
Grave-neighbour	n	"The cold company of his grave(-)neighbour". 2. neighbours in death - the state of those buried beside one another, regardless of relationship or kinship.
Grave-riven	adj	Full of graves.
Graveside	n	Spot very near to a grave.
Gravestead	n	Burial place, tomb, grave.
Gravestone	n	Headstone, tombstone, foot-stone, monument on grave. 2. a stone coffin. 3. a stone or memorial placed over a grave or at the entrance to a tomb.
Graveward	adj	Tendering towards death and the grave and death
Grave wax	n	A waxy substance found on corpses; adipocere. 2. a brown, fatty, waxy substance (fatty acid) that forms on dead animal tissue in response to hydrolysis.
Graveyard	n	Cemetery, necropolis, memorial parks, burial place.
Graveyard-minded	adj	Spooky, eerie, cemeterial.
Graveyard-shift	n	Etymology: by association of the eerie, cold and silent properties of both the night and graveyards. 2. work performed between midnight and dawn. 3. a night shift at a factory, radio station, and other places of work, especially from midnight till 8am.
Grave-yard watch	n	The middle watch of a ship from midnight till 4.am.
Gray	adj	See 'grey'
Gray-beard	n	An old man, or one with a gray beard.
Gray hat	n	In the computer community a skilled hacker who sometimes acts legally and in goodwill and sometimes not. They are a hybrid between a black hacker and a white hacker. They hack for no personal gain and do not have malicious intentions, but not commit crimes. See: "white-hacker, black hacker, and red hacker"
Grayish	adj	Somewhat gray or greyish.
Grayly	adj	In a gray, grey way.
Grayness	n	The state or quality of being gray.
Gray-out	n	A temporary loss or blurring of vision caused by oxygen deficiency ; noted especially by pilots subjected to high acceleration.
Graze	n	The act of cropping or feeding upon growing grass, pasture.
Graze	vb	To feed on grass, to put to pasture. 2. to put cattle, etc to feed on grass and herbage. 3. to tend to cattle at pasture.
Grazing	n	Pasture.
Greade	n	Bosom, lap; also Grede
Great	adj	Old English great "big, tall, thick, stout, massive; coarse," from West Germanic *grautaz "coarse, thick" cognates: Old Saxon grot, Old Frisian grat. large, big, important, preeminent, distinguished.
Great	vb	To become great, thick, large, or increase. 2. to become pregnant
Great	phr	"Be Great At" - to have great skill in.
Great	phr	"Great and Small" - people of all ranks, grades of office, importance.
Great	phr	"Great Minds Think Alike" - similar ideas and views are shared by clever people (said in a jocular way). 2. said (humorously) when two people have the same opinion and make the same choice.
Great	phr	"I'm the Greatest" - I am better than anyone else.
Great	phr	"That's Great" - that is excellent.
Great	phr	"The Great and the Good" - often in irony, distinguished and worthy people.
Great	phr	"The Great I Am" - a person who thinks he or she is very important.
Great	phr	"The Great Unwashed" - the lower classes; the masses; hoi polloi. 2. members of the beatnik and hippy movements. 3. youth collectively.
Great ape	n	An ape of the family Hominidae, includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
Great Bear	n	A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a large bear. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major; see Charles Wain; the Plough; the Wain.
Great Britain	n	Great Britain is the name for the island that comprises England, Scotland, and Wales, although the term is also used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a political unit that includes these countries and Northern Ireland. The British Isles is a geographical term that refers to the United Kingdom, Ireland, and surrounding smaller islands such as the Hebrides and the Channel Islands
Great Dane	n	A mastiff known for it great size, bred in Germany to hunt bears and large game.
Great-day	n	Day of judgement, doomsday.
Great Deal	n	A large amount or number, a big deal
Greaten	vb	To become pregnant. 2. to render great or greater in size or amount. 3. to increase, augment, enlarge, magnify. 3. to render eminent, prominent, distinguished or important. 4. to increase in rank or power of. 5. to exalt mentally or spiritually, to elevate or ennoble the mind. 6. of material or immaterial things, to increase in size, dimension, or extent, to assume large proportion.
Greatening	n	The making greater and advancement of oneself; as, ' as you go on your greatening way.'
Greater	adj	Used to refer to a region or place together with the surrounding area, as 'Greater London".
Greater	phr	"Greater than" - the symbol used to show inequality between two numbers or expressions; for example 5 > 3; 104> 107.
Greater	n	"The Greater" - those of a greater size, importance, eminence.
Greater good	n	The benefit of the public of more than oneself; that which is better and more correct.
Greaterness	n	The condition or quality of being great.
Great-go	n	In British Universities, the final examination for a degree.
Great hall	n	The main room of a palace, castle or large manor.
Great-heart	adj	High-spirited, proud, having a noble or generous heart, soul. 2. magnaminious
Great-hearted	adj	Having high-spirited, proud. 2. having a noble or generous heart or spirit, magnanimous, noble-souled.
Great-heartedness	n	High-spirit, nobility or generosity of heart, magnanimity.
Greathood	n	Greatness.
Great house	n	A large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff, esp. of those at the turn of the C20th.
Great Hundred	n	The 'Hundred' of six score (120) used in the Germanic languages before the C15th. The number was simply described as 100and translated into Latin in German-speaking countries as centum. the qualifier 'long' is now added because present day English uses the word 'hundred' to exclusively refer to the number of (5 score/100) instead.
Greatish	adj	Somewhat or rather great in various senses..
Great kind	n	Of great or noble birth.
Great Lake	n	The Atlantic ocean, "The Ditch'.
Great Leap Forward	n	An attempt begun in 1958 by the leadership of the People Republic of China to transform China into a modern socialist state.
Greatly	adj	Great; by a considerable amount..
Greatly	adv	In a great way or manner. 2. in or to a great degree.
Great-minded	adj	Magnanimous.
Great minds	n	The highest minds.
Great Mother	n	Cybele
Greath-mouthed	adj	Loud, bragging, bodacious, boastful.
Greatness	n	The state, condition, or quality of being great; as greatness of mind. 2. obs. pride, haughtiness.
Great-road	n	Highway, freeway, autobahn.
Great room	n	A room space within a place which combines the specific functions of several of the more traditional room spaces into a singular united space.
Great Satan	n	The Devil, Lucifer
Great Sea	n	The Mediterranean Sea.
Great-thought	n	Maxim, apothegm.
Great toe	n	The big toe.
Great Wall	n	'The Great Wall of China" - a monumental wall constructed (249- 209) in China, extending 1,500 miles between China proper and Mongolia.
Great war	n	World War One.
Great Wen	n	'The Great Wen' is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on the face of the nation. (A "wen" a sebaceous cyst.) The term is quoted in his 1830 work Rural Rides: "But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'"
Great White Father	n	A term of address originally used by the American first folk to refer to the President of the US, now used transfigurative and ironical.
Great White North	n	Canada
Great White Way	n	The Great White Way: Broadway in NY City, in reference to it's brilliant street illumination.
Greatwort	n	Inula helenium
Great Year	n	A term that some ancient civilizations use to describe the slow procession of the equinox through twelve houses of the ancient Zodiac, a period that takes 24,000 years.
Greave	n.	O.E.Branches, twigs, brushwood, thicket.
Greaves	n	Refuse from tallow used in pet food, etc
Grede	vb	To cry out, cry, shout out, wail. 2. said of male birds, to crow. 3. of persons, to utter, cry, sing a song; to announce with a loud voice (stevven), proclaim. 4. to beg loudly, implore, accuse another. 5. to accuse of a crime.
Greding	n	Crying, wailing, supplication
Greed	n	Eager and selfish desire, greediness, avarice. 2. greedily eat, hungrily eat; a greedy guts
Greedhead	n	An avaricious person; greedy guts.
Greedily	adv	Excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth. 2. having the strong desire to acquire to possess money or things, esp. wishing to possess more than one needs.
Greediness	n	The wish of desiring excessive or inordinate wealth. 2. the having the strong desire to acquire to possess money or things, esp. wishing to possess more than one needs.
Greedlock	n	Where a minority of wealth-takers are going unchallenged in their sacking of wealth the people have jointly produce.
Greeds	n	Coarse grass, straw, manure
Greedy	adj	Eager to obtain; avaricious; grasping. 2. having a an excessive appetite for food and drink. 3. gluttonous, insatiable, ravenous, selfish, voracious.
Greedy guts	n	A voracious eater, glutton, one who gormandizes.
Greedy-minded	adj	Acquisitive, covetous, greedy, miserly, mean.
Greek	n	Old English Grēcas ‘the Greeks’, from Latin Graeci, the name given by the Romans to the people who called themselves the Hellenes, from Greek Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes. 2. the Indo-European language of the Greeks. 3. Greek language and literature from the middle of the eighth century BC to the end of the third century AD, especially the Attic Greek of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. 4. a native or inhabitant of Greece. 5. a person of Greek ancestry. 6. informal A member of a fraternity or sorority that has its name composed of Greek letters. 7. something that is unintelligible..
Greek	adj	Of or relating to Greece or its people, language, or culture
Greek	phr	"All Greek to Me" - some is incomprehensible or difficult to understand.
Greekdom	n	The realm or world of Greece and the Greek people.
Greek fire	n	A highly flammable substance of unknown composition first used by the Greeks of Constantinople in the 7th century C.E. to set fire to enemy ships, buildings etc.  2. Grecian fire
Greek-god	n	A paragon of male physical beauty.
Greeking	adj	Greeking is a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols, not always from the Greek alphabet. Greeking obscures portions of a work for the purpose of either emphasizing form over details or displaying placeholders for unavailable content. The name is a reference to the phrase "Greek to me", meaning something that one cannot understand, so that it might as well be in a foreign language.
Greekish	adj	Somewhat resembling things and ways Greek.
Greekishly	adv	In accordance with Greekdom.
Greekless	adj	Having no knowledge of the greek language.
Greeklike	adj	resembling the ancient Greek language or culture or some aspect of it.
Greekling	n	A small, insignificant or contempible Greek.
Greeklish	adj	A portmanteau of the words of greek and english. 2. the Greek language written in the English alphabet. 3. informally used for the non-standard language variety used by bi-lingual speakers of Greek and English.
Greekness	adj	The state or quality of being Greek.
Green	n	The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between yellow and blue in the visible spectrum; one of the primary additive colour for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and blue from white light using cyan and yellow filters. 2. politics, member of a green party; an environmentalist. 3. golf) a putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole. 4. (bowls) the surface upon which bowls is played. 5. (snooker) one of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points. 6. In Britain, a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement. 7. a grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage. 8. (chiefly in the plural) fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths. 9. any substance or pigment of a green colour. 10. slang, marijuana. 11. money
Green	vb	To desire earnestly, to long after, or envy. 2. to make (something) green, to turn (something) green. 2. to become or grow green in colour. 3. to add green spaces to (a town). 4. to become environmentally aware. 5. to make (something) environmentally friendly.
Green	adj	Having the spectrum colour between blue and yellow; having green as its color. 3.(fig, of people) sickly, unwell. 2. unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen. 3. (fig, of people) inexperienced. 4. (fig, of people) naïve or unaware of obvious facts. 5. (fig, of people) overcome with envy. 6. (fig,) environmentally friendly. 7. (cricket)describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture. 8. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, un-smoked; not smoked or spiced. 9. (dated) not fully roasted; half raw. 10. of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy. 11. (wine) high or too high in acidity. 12. full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent, as a 'green manhood'; 'a green wound'. 13. (Filipino English ) describing something with a sexual connotation
Green	phr	"As Green as a Gooseberry' - (gooseberry origin uncertain)
Green	phr	"As Green as Grass" - naive, inexperienced, immature, easily deceived.
Green	phr	"Be Green and Wan" - pale and sickly, esp. bilious.
Green	phr	"Be In a Green Tree" - under conditions not involving distress or hardship.
Green	phr	"Give the Green Light" - to grant permission to.
Green	phr	"Have Green Fingers" - be good at gardening.
Green	phr	"Keep the Bones Green" - to maintain good health.
Green	phr	"See Green In One's Eyes" - signs of inexperience or gullibility.
Green	phr	"To be Green" - to be naive.
Green	phr	"The Green, White and Gold" - the republic of Ireland's flag.
Green	phr	"Turn Green" - to become envious.
Green	phr	"You Would Believe that the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - you would believe the most absurd thing imaginable
Greenacre	n	(law) A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
Green alder	n	A tree of the genus Alnus, 'alnus viridos'.
Green-back	n	One of the class of legal tender of the United States, so called because it is printed in green. 2. the golden plover.
Green bean	n	The immature pod of any kind of bean plant, eaten as a vegetable. 2. the immature pods of numerous varieties of the common bean, 'Phaseolus vulgaris'
Green-belt	n	A strip of recreational unoccupied land, encircling a community as a protection against objectionable property uses.
Green blindness	n	Deuteranopia.
Greenbody	n	An object composed of a ceramic compound, usually clay or powder, before it has been fired.
Greenbone	n	The Greenbone: the garfish
Green-briar	n	Green brier, any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus 'Smilax' .
Green build	vb	To design and construct to be ecologically correct by using resources efficiently, using internal recycling, renewable energy sources, recyclable or biodegradable construction materials, and blending in with the local environment, particularly in out-of-town locations. The aims are to reduce to a minimum the environmental impact, and to take human health factors into consideration.
Green building	n	A building designed to be ecologically correct by using resources efficiently, using internal recycling, renewable energy sources, recyclable or biodegradable construction materials, and blending in with the local environment, particularly in out-of-town locations. The aims are to reduce to a minimum the environmental impact, and to take human health factors into consideration.
Green burials	n	Ensuring that burial sites remain as natural as much as possible in all respects.
Green cloth	n	(Informally)- the green covering of a billiard and gaming table. 2. (informally) - a billiard or gaming table.
Green Christmas	n	A mild Christmas without snow or frost.
Green crop	n	Crop used as fodder in a green state rather than as hay etc.
Green earth	n	A clay containing small amounts of manganese and iron, used as a pigment in dyeing and as abase for some green lakes.
Greened	adj	Rendered green; covered with verdure.
Greener	n	An inexperienced workman, esp. a foreigner in search of work.
Green-eyed	adj	Viewing anything with jealousy, the eye of jealously. 2. influenced by jealously.
Green-eyes	n	One who views everything with envy, as an "Old Green Eyes'.
Green fallow	n	Land rendered mellow and clear from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnip, potatoes.
Green feed	n	Grazing of cattle, sheep etc. on green pastures, such as lucerne.
Greenfield	n	Originally used in construction and development in reference that land has never been used (e.g. green or new) and where there is no need to demolish or rebuild any existing structures.
Green-finger(s)	n	One unusually successful in making plants grow; a green-thumb.
Green fingered	adj	Having considerable ability and talent to growing plants.
Green fly	adj	A very small, pale green insect that often harms or destroys plants; an aphid.
Green glass	n	Bottle glass; the viscid melted used for making bottles.
Green Goddess	n	A British Army fire-engine.
Green gold	n	An alloy of gold, silver and copper in varying proportions, ranging from 14 to 18 carats in fineness, the deepest shade being of 18 carats; used in jewelry.
Greengoods	n	Counterfeit American currency notes. 2. vegetables and green fruits; green-groceries; greenware, greenworts.
Green-head	n	A young, immature or untrained intellect. 2. a raw, green, inexperienced person, simpleton, ignoramus.
Greenheaded	adj	Young, immature or untrained. 2. raw, inexperienced, mentally unalert, simple, ignorant, dull-minded.
Greenhearted	adj	Having a a green centre, as a green stone such as emerald. 2. having a 'green' or bushy area in a city.
Greenhood	n	State of being green or verdant. 2, greenness.
Green-horn	n	A new, inexperienced person, tyro, novice.
Green-house	adj	A building having glass walls and roof, for the protection and propagation of plants.
Green-houselike	adj	Similar or resembling a greenhouse.
Green-in-earth	adj	Just buried or interred.
Greening	n	The process of becoming green or covered with verdure. 2. the process of rendering or imparting a green colour.
Greening	adj	Greening or becoming green. 2. that causes green.
Greenish	adj	Somewhat or a little bit green. (in various senses).
Greenishly	adj	Somewhat green or verdure.
Greenishness	n	The state or appearance of being green.
Green-keeping	n	The maintenance and care of bowling greens, golf courses, sporting fields etc.
Greenland	n	The largest island in the world, off North east North America,
Greenlander	n	A person who is a native or resident of Greenland.
Greenlane	n	(Britain) - any of several types of wide unsurfaced paths through the countryside, esp. the ancient ones once used for herding animals.
Green lea	n	A green valley or dale.
Green-lead ore	n	Pyromorphite
Green light	n.	A green signal used in the control of traffic and indicating that traffic may proceed. 2. colloquially approval or authorization of an intended action; permission to proceed on a course of action.
Greenlight	vb	To give permission for someone to take a course of action.
Greenline	n	To ease access to service to residents in specific areas, particularly by designating such areas as suitable for real-estate lending and property insurance.
Greenline	vb	A false misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal
Greenlung	n	An area of natural parkland within an urban region supposed to replenish the air with oxygen.
Greenly	adj	With a green colour; with green vegetation. 2. so as to look green. 3. of growing vegetation: freshly vigorous, youthfully. 3. in an inexperienced or unskilled way; unskillfully with a simplicity.
Greenman	n	A symbol of a human figure illuminated green at a pedestrian crossing to indicate a time to cross. 2. a man dressed up in greenery to represent a wild man of the woods or seasonal fertility. 3. a fresh, raw or inexperienced way.
Green Monday	n	A worldwide platform for all parties passionate about plant-based life-styles.
Greenness	adj	The state or quality of being green. 2. the condition of being raw, inexperienced, untrained.
Green-room	n	The common waiting room for performers in a theater when they are off stage.
Green roof	n	A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage and irrigation systems.
Green sand	n	Either of two green-colored sandstone strata of the Cretaceous. system:
Green-shank	n	Tringa nebularia, a European sandpiper
Greenshirt	n	A member of Canada's Social Credit Party, which was thought by its opponents to resemble a fascist movement , at least in style, if not presentation. 2. sometimes used to refer to th eIron Guard Death squads in Romania.
Greensick	adj	Morbidly sick, bilious.
Green-sickness	n	Chlorosis: an enemic disease which mostly affects young women about the age of puberty with a pale green tinge to their complexion.
Green-side	n	Grassy land, pasture, grass
Green-spot	n	A plot of land, covered by vegetation.
Greenstick	adj	A seroius and painful bone fracture.
Greenstone	n	Any green stone, but usually comprising greenish coloured rocks containing feldspar or augite, such as diorite and varieties of jade.
Greensward	n	Turf green with grass.
Greenth	n	Verdure.
Green thumb	n	Success or skill in making plants grow easily
Green-to-green	adj	Describing the condition in which two sea-going ships traveling in opposite directions pass each other on their starboard sides, making their green navigation lights face each other
Greenward	adj	Towards an ecologically friendly situation.
Greenware	n	Greenstuffs, vegetation, herbage. 2. in pl. a commercial term for green vegetables; green goods, greenworts.
Greenwash	n	A false or misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal or obscure damaging activities.
Greenwash ‎	vb	To disseminate such information about false or misleading picture of environmental friendliness used to conceal or obscure damaging activities.
Greenwashing	n	Greenwashing is the practice of making an unsubstantiated or misleading claim about the environmental benefits of a product, service, technology or company practice. Greenwashing can make a company appear to be more environmentally friendly than it really is
Greenwater	n	The precipitation on land that does not run off or recharge the groundwater but is stored in the soil or temporarily stays on top of the soil or vegetation. Eventually, this part of precipitation evaporates or transpires through plants. Green water can be made productive for crop growth (although not all green water can be taken up by crops, because there will always be evaporation from the soil and because not all periods of the year or areas are suitable for crop growth).
Greenwave	n	A series of traffic lights (usually three or more) coordinated to allow continuous traffic flow in one main direction over several intersections
Greenwax	n	A seal of green wax attesting a document formerly issued by the exchequer to a sheriff. 2. a document attested by green wax. 3. the fines or amercement collected by virtue of such (a document attested by green wax).
Greenway	n	A way covered with verdure; hence, fig. a pleasant path or vista.
Greenweed	n	A small Eurasia shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States and sometimes grown as an ornamental. 2. also known as dyer's greenweed, dyer's broom, woadwaxen, whin.
Greenwood	n	A forest; a forest in leaf.
Greenwort	n	The sneeze wort, achillea pharmica.
Greenworts	n	Vegetables, greens.
Greeny	n	(sl) - the curtain of a theatre. 2. a greenhorn at university. 3. an environmentalist (a greenie).
Greeny	adj	Verdant; fig. vigorously green.
Greenyard	n	In Britain an enclosure for holding stray animals.
Greet	n	One greets or cries out. 2. a greeter, one who salutes.
Greet	vb	To weep, cry, lament, grieve; to shed tears (although rarely said of the eye). 2. to cry out, or call out in supplication or anger. 3. to weep, lament, wail. 4. to beseech a person with tears.
Greet	phr	"Greet With" - offer, in for of a welcome, jeering, applause, etc.
Greeteth	vb	Past particle of greet.
Greeting	n	Lamentation, weeping; the action of lamentation or weeping.
Greeting	adj	That greets or salutes.
Greetingful	adj	Sorrowful; tearful.
Greeting-less	adj	Without greeting or welcome.
Greetingly	adv	In a salutatory manner. 2. that weeps or greets.
Greets	n	Greetings.
Greeve	n	See 'Grieve"
Greme	vb	OE: gremian. - to anger, or vex. 2. to become angry or vexed.
Greming	n	The action of angering or vexing; causing rage
Gremthe	n	Anger, rage, vexation.
Grey	n	Grey horse of a light gray or whitish color. 2. clothing that is a grey color. 3. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. 4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Grey	vb	Make grey or render grey in color. 2. turn grey in color.
Grey	adj	Black and white colors mixed together with little or no positive hue, hoary, hence old aged. 2. epithet of (a) the Cisterician monks, because of the colour of their habits, the grey friars. 3. of a horse, having a grey coat. 4. of the badger: (the grey). 5. ancient, old, mature.
Grey	phr	"In the Grey" - unburnished.
Grey	phr	"The Grey Mare is the Better Horse" - the wife rules the husband.
Grey-back	n	A confederate soldier in the American Civil War. 2. the grey whale, the hooded crow.
Grey-beard	n	A man with a grey beard; hence (often used in contempt) of an elderly or dottery man. 2. a large stoneware jug for spirits.
Grey-board	n	Thick grey paper used as a packaging or for artwork. 2. a board made entirely for waste pape and packaging purposes..
Grey-body	n	A body with constant emissivity over all wavelengths and temperatures. Such an ideal body does not exist in practice but the assumption is a good approximation for many objects used in engineering.
Grey-eyed	adj	Dull, without hue, applied poetically to the early morning; as, in "The grey-eyed morning smiles on the frowning night".
Grey-ghost	n	A parking officer who wears a grey uniform.
Grey goods	n	Greige: cotton, linen, silk, rayon or wool fabric before dying, sizing or other processing: named for its grey unfinished appearance.
Grey-haired	adj	Characteristic of age, esp. having grey or white hair; grey-headed, grey.
Grey-hat	n	A hacker who exploits the security weakness in a computer system or product in order to bring the weaknesses to the attention of the owners. unlike a 'black hat' a grey hat acts without malicious intent.
Grey-haired	adj	Showing characteristics of age, esp. having grey or white hair.
Grey-headed	adj	To grow grey-headed; to grow old, be of an old age, as a man. 2. to have served for a long period, inveterate, be an 'old hand at'. 3. to be well versed or experienced in. 4. of things - ancient, old-time worn.
Greyhound	n	One of a breed of tall, slender dogs with a long narrow head and smooth short coat:used for hunting and racing. 2. a fast ocean vehicle.
Grey iron	n	Grey iron, or grey cast iron, is a type of cast iron that has a graphite micro-structure. It is named after the gray color of the fracture it forms, which is due to the presence of graphite. It is the most common cast iron and the most widely used cast material based on weight.
Greyish	adj	Somewhat grey/ gray.
Greyishly	adv	In a somewhat grey manner.
Greyishness	n	The quality of being greyish.
Greyline	n	A narrow band of dusk and dawn that separates the areas of daylight from those in darkness throughout the world.
Greyly	adj	Of colour, with a grey tinge or hue.
Greyness	n	The state or quality of being grey. 2. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black. 2. a colour lacking a hue. 3. a light shade of grey; silver grey.
Grey ore	n	Chalcolite
Grey-out	n	A temporary loss of consciousness, less severe than a blackout. 2. a temporary loss or blurring of vision caused by oxygen deficiency; especially in aviators or pilots subject to high acceleration.
Greystone	n	Volcanic rock composed of feldspar.
Greyware	n	Any of the various kinds of (especially ancient) clay pottery that are grey in colour. 2. a grey area between software and a virus, for example spyware and adware.
Greywater	n	The relatively clean waste water from baths, sinks washing machines and other kitchen/ home appliances.
Grey whale	n	(Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale, gray back whale, Pacific gray whale, or California gray whale is a baleen whale that migrates between feeding and breeding grounds yearly.
Greywolf	n	A large wolf of North America; the timber wolf.
Greywork	n	The work of a furrier.
Greyworker	n	Furrier.
Grieve	n.	Governor of a provincial town. 2. an overseer, manager, head-workman on a farm.
Grill	n	Harm, hurt, injure.
Grill	vb	(OE: grillan - to annoy, vex, offend. 2. make angry, provoke. 3. to terrify, tremble, tremble or shudder in fear, hesitate in fear. 2. to cause to sound, play an instrument, twang.
Grill	n	Shivering, shuddering, grilling.
Grill	adj	OE: griell - angry, harsh, rough, severe, cruel.
Grim	adj	Of persons, fierce, cruel, savage, harsh. 2. determined, daring, bold. 3. stern, merciless, resolute, uncompromising. 4. forbidding or harsh in aspect. Stern, implying no softening in laughter or jest. 5. dealing with ghastly subjects. 6. harsh and repellent of aspect.
Grim	phr	"Hold on Like Grim Death" -hold something tenaciously.
Grime	n	OE: grima - a mask. 2. a creature that has assumed a horrible form; a spectre ghost.
Grimful	adj	Full of grimness; hence: terrible.
Grimlike	adj	Characteristic of, or resembling, something dismal, gloomy, stern, forbidding.
Grimliness	n	Characteristic or being dismal, gloomy, stern, forbidding.
Grim-looking	adj	Grimly, grim-natured, dismal, gloomy, forbidding in aspect.
Grimly	adv	Grim-looking; grim in appearance or nature. 2. with a stern or cruel action, intention, or feeling, fiercely, cruely. 3. rigidly uncomprisingly. 4. dreadfully, frightfully, shockingly, terribly. 5. with a grim look or air (of a person).
Grimness	n	The condition or quality of being grim; fierceness, sternness, of formidable aspect.
Grimsightedness	n	Austere
Grin	n	A noose, trap or snare for catching birds or animals made of cord, etc
Grin	n	The act of grinning, a broad smile.
Grin	vb	To smile broadly. 2. to draw back the lips to show the teeth in rage, pain, anger or foolish laughter.
Grin	phr	Grin and Bear it- to suffer adversity cheerily or without complaint. 2. endure something unpleasant cheerfully, or at least without complaint.
Grin	phr	"Grin From Ear to Ear" - smile broadly, showing great pleasure or amusement.
Grin	phr	"Grin Like a Cheshire Cat" - to grin or smile, esp. in a senseless or inappropriate way.
Grind	n	Steady and hard work, close and hard study: doing so. 2. a laborious student.
Grind	vb	To reduce to small particles or powder by crushing between two hard surfaces, triturate. 2. to sharpen, polish, shape by friction. . 3. to make grain into meal; to grind coffee. 4. to produce music on a an organ. 5. to copulate. 6. in OE, to make a grinding or grating noise. 7. to gnash with the teeth. 8 to oppress harshly or cruelly. 9. to masticate. the clash (noise) of weapons.
Grind	phr	"Daily Grind" - daily work.
Grind	phr	"Grind Away (At)" - work with gim determination.
Grind	phr	"Grind Into" - press with great force with fist, heel (tobacco, food, etc). 2. reduce, by grinding (meal, corn, etc).
Grind	phr	"Grind Down (somebody)" - oppress.
Grind	phr	"Grind One's Teeth" - grind the upper and lower teeth against each other as an accompaniment, or reaction, to pain, stress, frustration; gnash the teeth.
Grind	phr	"Grind Out" to utter sentence or oath through teeth (in a grating voice). 2. play, heavily, drearily.
Grind	phr	"Grind to a Halt" - to cease some activity despite expectations that it would continue. 2. gradually or slowly and inevitability and perhaps noisily to a stop.
Grind	phr	"Have An Axe To Grind" - pursue a personal and private (often leading to a bias point of view).
Grind	phr	"The Grind" -a walk take for exercise or grind; anything taken laboriously. 2. (slang) a steeplechase.
Grind	phr	The Grind of the Sun" - fig, constantly doing so, going down, setting, rising.
Grind	phr	"The Mills of God Grinds Slowly" - retribution maybe dealyed but it is inevitable.
Grind	phr	"The Sun by West Grinds ' - to set, go down; as the sun.
Grinder	n	An instrument for grinding: a molar tooth. 2. (slang), a bit-grinder: a computer.
Grind-house	n	See "Grinding-house'
Grinding	n	The action of grinding.
Grinding	adj	Of sounds, strident. 2. of effort, burdensome, crushing, exacting, oppressive. 3. of persons, organizations, with extortion. 4. of pain, racking, wearing, excruciating.
Grinding frame	n	An English name for cotton spinning machine.
Grinding-house	n	A mill, a mill-stone. 2. figuratively, of organization, group, place of extortion.
Grindingly	adv	In a grinding manner.
Grindle	n	A green valley or dale; as a green dale.
Grinds	n	The teeth
Grindstone	n	A flat circular stone so hung that it can be rotated upon an axis used for sharpening tools; abrading. 2. millstone.
Grindstone	n	"To Put One's Nose to the Grindstone" - to work with particular diligence.
Grinner	n	One who smiles broadly, as an indication of pleasure, amusement.
Grinnily	adv	In a grinning manner.
Grip	n	Intellectual or mental hold for mastering a subject. 2. of a beverage: quality which gives it a hold-able palate. 3. a twinge. 4. fit, spasm, seizure. 5. a handful: as much as can be gripped by the hand.
Grip	n	Burrow, trench, small open ditch for carrying water, a drain a furrow. 2. gutter in a cow house.
Grip	vb	To take hold of, seize, grab, grasp. 2. to dig a trench or ditch.
Grip	phr	"Come to Grips With" - be on the way to solving a problem. 2. deal with.
Grip	phr	"Get a Grip On Oneself" - get oneself under control.
Grip	phr	"Get to Grips with" - begin to deal with or understand; approach with purpose.
Grip	phr	"Have Something in an Iron Grip - to hold something very securely.
Grip	phr	"In the Grip of" - in the control or power.
Grip	phr	"Lose One's Grip" -lose one's intellectual or mental hold for mastering a something.
Gripe	vb	To make a grasp or clutch, to seek to get hold of, to close in tight control, sieze firmly. 2. to lay hold, sieze, catch, grasp, grasp tightly with a hand or claw. 3. to get into one's possession, to take, recieve. 4. to enclose in a tight embrace, encircle tightly. 5. to oppress by miserly or penurious means. 6, to grieve, afflict. 7. to produce pain in the bowel.
Gripe	phr	"Gripe at" - informally complain about, usually unreasonably.
Gripe-all	n	An avaricious person.
Griped	adj	Clenched, held tightly and firmly. 2. pained in the bowels.
Gripeful	adj	As much as a clenched fist can hold.
Griper	n	One who oppresses others by extortionate and niggardly methods; an extortionist. 2. an instrument of torture that presses down. 3. a canine tooth. 4. one who 'gripes or complain.
Gripe water	n	A product claimed to relieve colic and other gastro-intestinal ailments in infants.
Griping	n	The action of griping, grasping or clutching tightly. 2. fig. of person or their action of grasping, being usurious, being avaricious, squeezing, oppressing.
Griping	adj	That which gripes, causes pain or distess (causing pain or distress, painful, distressing mentally or physical). 2. spasmodic constriction of the bowel.
Gripingly	adv	In a griping manner : grasping, clenching, tightening. 2. (lit. & fig.) in a painful and/or distressing manner.
Gripingness	n	The state or condition of griping: causing pain or distress; or (2) the act of clenching tightly, grasping firmly etc.
Gripless	adj	Lacking a grip or cable.
Gripman	n	A worker on a cable car who operates the grip, which by grasping or releasing the moving cable, starts or stops the car.
Grippen	vb	To clench the fist.
Gripper	n	A person or thing that grasps something. 2. the handle of a bicycle, tool etc. that makes it easier to grip. 3. a ticket collector. 4. a visual compartment of a computer window etc. enabling it to be resized or moved.
Gripping	n	The action of taking a firm hold of; seizing.
Gripping	adj	That grips, clutches, or grasps tightly.
Grippingly	adv	In a gripping, grasping, grabbing, seizing manner.
Gripple	n	A hook to seize things with.
Gripple	adj	Niggardly, usurious, tenacious; gripping.
Gripple-handed	adj	Niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping.
Gripple-minded	adj	Niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping.
Grippleness	n	Avarice, greed, niggardliness; a greedy desire for something. 2. in mooring: tenaciously gripping.
Grippingly	adv	In a niggardly, usurious, tenacious, gripping manner.
Grippy	adj	Having the tendency to be avaricious. 2. tenacious. 3. capable of holding the attention and interest of a spectator.
Gris	n	Terror, horror, violence, grise.
Grise	adj	Sad, terrified; (may relate to OE grorn, sad, begrornen, to be sad, terrified, or grye: horror). 2. grisly
Grise	vb	To shudder with fear or horror, tremble with great afraidness, affright or abhorrence. 2. to shudder at with terror or abhorrence, to dread, abhor, loathe. 3. to terrify, affright.
Griseful	adj	Horrible, terrible, fearful, abhorred, dreadful.
Grising	n	Terror, horror, dread, loathing, abhorrence.
Grisliness	n	The state or condition of being grisly, gruesomeness, terrified, dreading, horribleness, fearfulness.
Grisly	adj	Horribly, savage-looking, terribly, grimly, fear-inspiring, horrifying so as to inspire terror.
Grisness	n	Terror, horror, dread.
Grist	vb.	To gnash one's teeth with anger, peevishness. To bring to grist: grounded to meal or powder.
Grist	n.	Corn or malt, etc., brought to the mill and that has be grounded. 2. the action of grinding. 3. fig: st. or so. grounded down by oppression or burden and used for advantage by others. 4. a lot, a number, a quantity of b anything, as a 'grist of flies'.
Grist	phr	"A Grist of Files" - a large amount, swarm of flies.
Grist	phr	All is Grist that Comes to His Mill - He (God) turns everything to account.
Grist	phr	Bring Grist to Someone's/One's Mill- to bring one business or advantage, 2, everything has some value. 2. something that one can seize, make use of, turn to one's own purposes.
Grist	phr	"Bring to Grist" - grounded to meal or powder.
Gristbite	vb	To gnash one teeth.
Gristiness	n	State or quality of being gristy.
Gristing	n	The action of grinding, milling corn, wheat, maize etc.
Gristle	n	Cartilage, also known as gristle-bone. 2. (fig.) a tender or delicate person. 3. slang: the nose.
Gristle	phr	"In the Gristle" - embryonic, unformed, or iniiatory stage of existence; inchoate.
Gristle-bone	n	Cartilage.
Gristly	adv	Hard to chew, rubbery.
Gristmill	n	A mill where grain is processed; a flour mill.
Gristy	adj	Grainy, mealy, coarse.
Grit	n	Minute particle of stone or sand, as produced by attrition or breakdown. 2. earth, soil, mould. 3. the ground. 4. firmness or solidity of character: great pluck or spirit, stamina. 5. bran, chaff, mill-dust, coarse oatmeal. 6. oats husked, but not ground. 7. a coarsely grounded hominy.
Grit	vb	To produce a grating sound, as by crushing of grit, to move with such a grating noise. 2. to cover with grit or sand. 3. to gritty sound.
Grit	phr	"Grit One's Teeth" - to grind or press the teeth together. 2. clench one's jaw so that the teeth close hard against each other. 3. to pursue something tenaciously and stubbornly. 4. face up or get ready to suffer.
Grit	n	The Crab, perhaps because of it's sideways, tenacious walk.
Grit	vb	To make a grating sound, of like the crushing of grit. 2. to cover with sands or grit.
Grit	phr	"To Grit One's Teeth" - to utter with the teeth gritted or almost closed.
Grith	n	OE: security; specifically in Old English law. 2. sanctuary or or refuge provided by the church. 3. a place or sanctuary, asylum, or refuge.
Gritberry	n	The genus Camorostaphylis
Grith	n	Protection, defence, safe conduct. 2. in OE law, security, peace or protection guaranteed under limitations (afterwards assumed the meaning of peace). 3. a sanctuary, asylum; quarter in battle.
Grith	vb	To make peace, give sanctuary or protection
Grith	n	Hand-grith: protection under the king's hand.
Grithbreach	n	Breach of grith and penalty for the breaching of..
Grithful	adj	Peaceful. 2. protective, secured.
Grith-fulness	n	Peacefulness.
Grithless	adj	Without peace, security or sanctuary.
Grithly	adv	Peaceably, securely, protectively.
Grithly	adj	Peaceful, protective, secure.
Grithman	n	A man, esp. a criminal who has taken sanctuary.
Grithstone	n	Stones that marked the boundary or bounds of a place of sanctuary.
Grithstool	n	Places of sanctuary.
Grithtown	n	A town or village where grith or sanctuary is given
Gritless	adj	Having no grit, without determination or tenacity. 2. having 'no grit' of character. 3. without a gritty or grating sound.
Gritstone	n	A hard coarse grained, siliceous stone, often used as a building material.
Grittily	adv	In a determined, gritty, gritful or tenacious manner. 2. plucky, spirited, courageos, resolute.
Grittiness	n	The quality, state or condition of being gritty. 2. consisting of, or containing or resembling grit, sand.
Grittle	n	Coarse grain.
Grittle	vb	To grind corn coarsely.
Gritty	adj	Of the nature, resembling grit, sandy; with minute particles rendering it unpleasant. 2. fig. of a literary style with allusion to the unpleasant qualities of 'gritty bread'. 3. having firmness of character or courage; full of determination or pluck.
Groan	n	A low deep sound of grief, pain or displeasure. 2. to groan inwardly, within oneself, from the heart.
Groan	vb	To make a low deep sound of grief, pain or displeasure; to be in pain or overburdened.
Groan	phr	"Groan Out" - utter with a groan.
Groan	phr	"Groan Under (or Beneath)" - to be oppressed, overburdened
Groan	phr	"Groan With" - produce a long. low sound from the throat, deliberately or involuntary.
Groaner	n	One who groans. 2. a thief or killer who attends the funeral of his victims.
Groanful	adj	Lugubrious.
Groaning	n	The action of groaning.
Groaning-board	n	A squeaky floor
Groaningly	adv	In a groaning manner.
Groaning-time	n	The travails of labor.
Groatworthy	adj	Of small nad insignificant value.
Groats	n	Hulled or crushed grain, esp. oats, but also wheat, barley and maize. 2. raw oats. 3. small particles.
Groats	phr	"Blood Without Groats is Nothing" - family without fortune is worthless. The allusion is perhaps to black pudding which consists chiefly of blood and groats formed into a sausage.
Groats broth	n	Thick, not very tasty soup.
Groatsworthy	n	A small handful of little monetary value.
Groom	n	Man newly married, or about to be married; a bridegroom: the correlative of bride.
Groomsman	n	A man who serves as one of a number of attendants to a bridegroom at a wedding, one of whom is the best man.
Grope	vb	Feel about, search blindly, as in grope one's way. 2. to feel about with or as with hands, as in the dark, feel one's way. 3. to seek out or find by or as by groping.
Grope	phr	"Grope After/For" - try to find, in a blind, fumbling way.
Groping	adj	Touching, grasping, seizing, attaining.
Groping	n	The act or action of seizing, grasping, touching.
Gropingly	adv	In a touching, grasping, groping manner
Grot	n	OE: grot- a fragment, particle, atom.
Ground	n	The bottom, the lowest part or downward limit of anything, of the sea, surface of the earth, a well, ditch, hell. the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface. 2. (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting. 3. a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) 4. a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused. 5. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground. 6. a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) 7. a rational motive for a belief or action. 8. the solid part of the earth's surface. 9. material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use.) 10. a relation that provides the foundation for something. 11. the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
Ground	vb	Establish, instruct (in elementary principles). ground use as a basis for; found on: base a claim on some observation. 2. instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject. 3. connect to a ground; ground the electrical connections for safety reasons. 4. fix firmly and stably. 5. cover with a primer; apply a primer to. . hit onto the ground. 7. throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage. 8. place or put on the ground confine or restrict to the ground: ground a plane. 9. hit or reach the ground 10. bring to the ground.
Ground	phr	"Above the Ground" - situated or taking place on or above the surface of the ground. 2. operating or established within the establishment, conventional.
Ground	phr	"Along the Ground" - moving along the surafce of the ground, as reptiles.
Ground	phr	"Be Grounded" - often in the expression " to be well grounded" : to be well acquainted with a subject.
Ground	phr	"Break New Ground" - to progress in a new direction. 2. to do something which there is no precedent. 3. do or find something new.
Ground	phr	"Bring to Ground" - to cast down, overthrow, overcome, subdue.
Ground	phr	"Come to Ground" - to be overcome, perish. 2. to be buried, to bury.
Ground	phr	"Down to the Ground" - appropriate, siutable for someone. 2. thoroughly, in every respect.
Ground	phr	"Fall to Ground" - to come to nothing, to be given up, or abandoned so as to be dashed to the ground.
Ground	phr	"From the Ground Up" - completely, entirety, from the first, or initial stage.
Ground	phr	"Gain Ground" - to advance, make steady progress.
Ground	phr	"Get (or be let in)In On the Ground Floor" - to invest on very favorable terms. 2. allow somebody to join an organization on the same terms as its founders.
Ground	phr	"Get (Something) Off the Ground" - to make a successful start. 2. iniatate; put into action.
Ground	phr	"Give Ground" - to recede, fall back; retreat, yield. 2. to make some concessions or to retreat or to concede some arguments.
Ground	phr	"Go To Ground" - withdraw quietly and secretly. 2. to be unavailable to those seeking a person. 3. hide, evade from pursuers.
Ground	phr	Ground and Lofty : fundamental & inspiring, (loft/lofty: late OE.)
Ground	phr	"Ground On" - give, provide as a basis.
Ground	phr	"Ground Out" - see 'grind out'.
Ground	phr	"Ground Down" - to reduce to small particles. 2. fig. to exhaust, wear out, tired out.
Ground	phr	"Have One's Feet On the Ground" - take a practical, realistic view.
Ground	phr	"Have the High Ground" - to have an advantage in moral terms.
Ground	phr	"Hold One's Ground" - not retreat or back away.
Ground	phr	"Keep (Have)One's Ear to the Ground" - to be well informed on current developments.
Ground	phr	"Kiss the Ground" - to suffer loss.
Ground	phr	"Lose Ground" - to fall back.
Ground	phr	"Make Up Ground" - to make progress, advance.
Ground	phr	"On Dry Ground" - on terra firma rather than water (or sea).
Ground	phr	"On One's Home/Own Ground" - where one has local advantage of knowledge or personal experience
Ground	phr	"On Shaky Ground" - not to have strong arguments.
Ground	phr	"On the Ground" - in situ. 2. at the point of production or operation; in practical conditions.
Ground	phr	"Plough(Plow) New Ground" - to laboriously engaged in an untried activity.
Ground	phr	"Rooted to the Ground" - immobile, fixed to the spot.
Ground	phr	"Run to Ground" - to discover the whereabouts of some person.
Ground	phr	"Shift One's Ground - change one's opinion, viewpoint.
Ground	phr	"Stand One's Ground" - to maintain an argument or purpose. 2. to maintain one's stance in face of opposition. be firm, unyielding.
Ground	phr	"Take the Ground from under Someone's feet" - to unexpectedly withdraw support and in the process cause embarrassment. 2. to demolish sometimes case or argument.
Ground	phr	"Thick on the Ground" - common; plentiful.
Ground	phr	"Thin on the Ground" - uncommon; scarce.
Ground	phr	"Well Grounded" - having a deep knowledge of.
Ground	phr	'Work Oneself into the Ground" - work to the point of exhaustion.
Ground	n	Grave, burial plot, tomb.
Ground-birds	n	Generic name for any columbine, gallineous, grallatorial or struthious birds. 2. a field sparrow or vesper sparrow.
Ground-breaker	n	A person who is an originator, innovator, or pioneer in a particular activity.
Ground-breaking	adj	Inovative, pioneering, original
Ground-breakingly	adv	In a innovating, pionering, originating manner.
Ground-burst	n	The detonation of an explosive device such as an artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on the ground.
Ground-ebb	n	Low water.
Grounded	adj	Acquainted, or in the case of being 'well-grounded' - having a deep knowledge of a subject; as, 'well or thoroughly grounded in French'. 2. reduced, grounded down to small particles.
Groundedly	adv	In a grounded or well-established manner; fundamentally, deeply, thoroughly.
Groundedness	n	The state or condition of being grounded
Grounder	n	One who or that which grounds.
Ground-feet	adj	Firmly fixed to the ground; flightless.
Groundfire	n	A forest fire that burns the humus and usually doesn't appear at the surface. 2. gunfire from the ground directed against aircraft.
Ground floor	n	The floor of a building level or almost level with the ground.
Ground floor	phr	"To Get In On the Ground Floor" - to enter or accompny or join a business undertaking at its inception and hence receive equal profits with the promoters.
Ground frost	n	A ground temperature low enough to cause injury to growing plants usually reckoned at 30 df. 2. frost formed on the surface of the ground or in the top layer of the soil.
Ground furse	n	Cammock
Ground game	n	Game animals such as rabbits and hares that live on the ground.
Ground glass	n	Glass with a smooth ground surface that renders it transparent while retaining its transluceness. 2. glass ground without an abrasive powder.
Groundhate	n.	Deep-seated hatred, fundamental apathy.
Ground hog	n	Aardvark; the woodchuck, a sandhog. 2. slang term for various workmen whose jobs keep them always on the ground. 3. one who works or walks far from their base camp, eg., footsoldier.
Ground-hog Day	n	February 2, Candlemas: according to rural tradition, if the ground hog, emerging after hibernation sees his shadow on this day, he retreats to the hole, thus indicating six weeks more of winter; if he does it is a sign of an early spring. 2. a term used by former President Clinton to refer to soldiers returning for a tour-of-duty to the same war-zone they've been to in the past.
Ground-hopper	n	A small predominately brown insect that has well developed wings.
Ground ice	n	Ice formed on the bottom of water. 2. ice on a hard surface such as a road.
Grounding	n	The action of founding or establishing. 2. the act of instructing in elementary or fundamental principles; instructions of this kind. 3. grounds, sediments.
Grounding	phr	"A Grounding In" - training or instruction that gives someone basic knowledge of a particular subject.
Ground ivy	n	A creeping herb - Nepeta hederacea - with roundish kidney-shaped, scalloped leaves and bluish-purple flowers.
Groundlay	n	Foundation layer
Ground-keeper	n	Someone who takes care of the upkeep of the gardens.
Ground-keeping	n	The occupation of taking care of the upkeep of the gardens.
Groundless	adj	Bottomless, unfathomable (lit. and fig.) 2. destitute of foundation, authority or support. 3. having no real cause or reason; unfounded.
Groundlessly	adv	Without grounds; without adequate reason or concern.
Groundlessness	n	The quality of being groundlessness or without foundation of adequate reason.
Groundling	n	A plant or creeper. 2. an animal that lives on the ground or of terrestrail habits. 3. of humble rank; one of base breeding or sentiment. 4. of inferior taste, uncritical or unrefined person.
Groundly	adj	Well-established or founded, solid, firm. 2. of instruction: thorough. 2. thoroughy instructed or educated. 3. thorough, complete; solid; deep; profound
Groundly	adv	In a well-founded, firmly established, deep-seated or fundamental manner; with relation to the ground or root ; thoroughly, profoundly. 2. to the very ground, to the very bottom; thoroughly, completely; solidly; deeply; profoundly
Groundnut	n	The peanut. 2. any of several plants having edible tubers, attached to the roots, as the ground pea.
Grounds	n	The foundation which something immaterial is built-up: an underlying principle.
Groundsel	n	Seneccio vulgaris. 2. a timber serving as a foundation to carry a super-structure, a framework, a foundation. 3. the foundation which something immaterial is built-up: an underlying principle.
Groundselling	n	The action of serving as a foundation to carry a super-structure, a framework, a foundation. 2. the foundation which something immaterial is built-up or based upon: an underlying principle.
Groundshare	n	The sharing of a stadium, as a cost saving device, between two local sporting clubs.
Ground-sheet	n	A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, or beneath a tent, upon which a person may sit or sleep.
Groundsill	n	The lowest horizontal timber in a frame building; a goundsel.
Groundskeeper	n	A groundsman.
Groundsman	n	A person who maintains sports grounds, parks, or the grounds of a school or other institution. 2. a ground-keeper.
Ground speed	n	The speed of an aircraft with relation to the earth.
Ground-spider	n	Generally, ground spiders are characterized by having barrel-shaped anterior spinnerets that are one spinneret diameter apart. The main exception to this rule is found in the ant-mimicking genus Micaria. Another characteristic is an indentation in the endites (paired mouthparts anterior and lateral to the labium, or lip). All ground spiders lack a prey-capture web and generally run prey down on the surface. They hunt at night and spend the day in a silken retreat.[1] The thick-walled egg sacs are guarded by the mother until the spider lings hatch
Ground-stone	n	Foundation stone
Ground-stathel	n	Foundation, base.
Groundstatheling.	n	Foundation, base.
Ground sward	n	Turf, patch of green
Groundsweat	n	"Take (have the) groundsweat" - the grave, or to lie in the ground or grave.
Groundswell	n	Deep swell or heavy rolling of the sea, as the result of a distant storm or seismic disturbance. 2. fig. swell of emotion, mental or political agitation.
Ground thought	n	Profound or deep thought or thinking
Ground wall	n	A retaining wall.
Groundwards	adv	Towards the ground. 2. turned or inclined towards the ground.
Ground water	n	Free sub-surface water, the top of which is the water table. 2. all water in and saturating the soil.
Ground wave	n	A radio wave which travels along the surface of the earth.
Ground wire	n	The wire connecting an electrical apparatus with the ground or with a grounded object.
Ground wood	n	(Paper industry) wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board
Groundwork	n	A fundamental part; a basis.
Groundwork	phr	"Put in the Groundwork" - to do what is necessary before an event or process can begin; lay the groundwork.
Groundworm	n	An earthworm or worm snake.
Grout	n	Coarse meal, peeled grain. 2. sediment, dregs, groats, lees, grounds. 3. a cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy
Grout	vb	To fill, surround or finish with stones.
Grouty	adj	Turbid as liquid. 2. cross or surly, sulky.
Grove	n	A group of trees, smaller than a forest. 2. a small wood, esp. one cleared of underbrush. 3. nemoral. 4. a collective of objects resembling a grove.
Groved	adj	Covered in, or having, groves.
Groveless	adj	Not having or devoid of a grow.
Grove-like	adj	Resembling or like a grove: small group of trees with minimal or no undergrowth.
Grover	n	One who lives in a grove.
Grovey	adj	Somewhat like a grove.
Grow	vb	Of a plant, to manifest vigorous life, to put forth foliage, flourish, be green. 2. to increase by a natural process of development or of enlargement, as a living organism or any of its parts; specifically, to increase by assimilation of nutriment, as animals or plants. 3. to be enlarged or extended, in general; increase; wax: as, a growing reputation; to grow in grace or in beauty. 4. to be changed from one state to another; become; be carried or extended, as to a condition or a result: as, to row pale; to grow indifferent; to grow rich; the wind growing into a tempest 6. to become attached or conjoined by or as if by a process of growth. 7. to lead: as, the chain grows out on the port bow. 8. to pass beyond or away from in development; leave behind; give up: as, to grow out of one's early beliefs or follies. 9. to take root; spring up; arise: as, a hostile feeling grew up in the community. 10. to cause to grow; cultivate; produce; raise: as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. 11. of a crystal, to develop or enlarge by the addition of molecules arranged in accordance with the laws of molecular attraction.
Grow	phr	"Grow Cold" - to wane or lose interest or enthusiasm for something or someone. 2. to be disenchanted or to fall out of love with someone.
Grow	phr	"Grow From" - germinate and reach fruition. 2. have as its origin; arise from.
Grow	phr	"Grow In' - become wiser, more worthy to lead, more important , etc; gain in.
Grow	phr	"Grow Into" - become, with the passage of time. 2. to become by degrees, ineradically fixed, vitally or indissolubly united with.
Grow	phr	"Grow On" - become gradually more attractive. 2. come with the passage with time.
Grow	phr	"Grow Out" - to be obliterated by growth.
Grow	phr	"Grow Out Of" - to become to big for (clothes). 2. to lose with the passage of time or with maturity, bad habits. 3. have as an origin, arise from, grow from. 4. abandon, lose with the passage of time or maturity. 5. have as an origin or cause; arise from,
Grow	phr	"Grow Over" - cover, spread over. 2. grow over with.
Grow	phr	"Grow To" - to be an organic or integral part of.
Grow	phr	"Grow Together" - to coalesce, unite or become united.
Grow	phr	"Grow Up" - to behave or think as an adult ought to, face the realities of life as it is, not as a child might imagine it to be. 2. go through one's formative years.
Grow	phr	"Grow Up into" - become, as one grows older, a villian, saint .
Grow	phr	"Grow Upon" - become gradually more favorably impressed by something.
Grow	phr	"Not Let the Grass Grow under One's Feet" - not let inertia or delay spoil something.
Grower	n	One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. 2. one who or that which grows or increa3. one who grows, raises, or produces; a cultivator or producer: as, a hop-grower; a cattle-grower
Growhouse	n	Growing-house, grower-house : a property, usually in a residential neighourhood, that is primarily used for the production of marijuana and other illegal drugs.
Growing	adj	(Of a living thing) undergoing natural development by increasing in size and changing physically. 2. coming into existence and developing.
Growingly	adv	Increasing more and more.
Grow light	n	An artificial light source, generally an electric light, designed to stimulate plant growth by emitting an electromagnetic spectrum appropriate for photosynthesis.
Grown	adj	Mature, fully developed.
Growness	n	The state or condition of growing or being overgrown.
Growsome	adj	Favourable to growth.
Grow-someness	n	State of being able to growth.
Grown man/woman	phr	An adult; somebody who has, or should have common sense. 2. somebody who will behave reasonably.
Grown-up	n	Having reach the age of an adult. 2. a mature person. 3. a grown man or woman.
Grown-up-dom	n	Adulthood.
Grown-up-domness:	n	The state of onset of adulthood
Growth	n	A growth, increase; what has grown or is growing, expanding or increasing. 2. the gradual beginning or coming forth. 3.vegetation that has, trees. 3. something grown or growing of hair. 4. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level. 5. a progression from simpler to more complex forms. 6. a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important as the increase in population. 7. (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
Growthful	adj	Full of growth; capable of growth.
Growthless	adj	Having no growth; destitute.
Growth-making	n	Promoting growth in various fields and endeavours
Growthman	n	One advocating or favouring a policy of expansion, growth and the fixing of specific economic goals
Growthmanship	n	A policy advocating or favouring a policy of expansion, growth and the fixing of specific economic goals
Growth ring	n	The layer of wood added to a tree during one growing period. 2. one of the concentric of new wood added to the trunk of a tree during one season of growth; a tree-ring.
Growthsome	adj	Productive, fertile.
Growth stock	n	A company stock that tends to increase in capital value rather than yield high income.
Growthwise	adv	Tending to growth; in terms of growth.
Growthy	adj	Promoting growth. 2. of good growth, capable of growing to a large size.
Grunt	n.	Hog's sound; low gruff, guttural sound, similar to a sound made by other animals, including man. 2. US combat soldier, a marine soldier or non-flying Airforce officer. 3. any person doing menial work. 4. a fish that makes a grunting noise when caught, in particular, when caught.
Grunt	vb	To make a low gruff sound; to grumble, complain.
Grunt	phr	"Grunt inwardly" - feel dismayed by something but remain silent.
Grunter	n	A fish that makes a grunting sound. 2. any animal (a pig) or person that grunts, makes a low, short, guttural sound. 3. a low ranking soldier or unskilled worker.
Grunting	n	The characteristic low short gruff noise of a pig, or similar sound, as a disgust. 2. abnormal, deep, short, hoarse sounds in exhalation that often accompany severe chest pain.
Grunting	adj	That grunts.
Gruntle	n	Pleased, satisfied. A back-formation from 'disgruntled' the original meant to utter a little or low grunt.
Gruntle	vb	To put in a good humour.
Gruntled	adj	Pleased, satisfied or contented.
Gruntlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a grunt.
Gruntling	n	A little pig, piglet.
Gruntingly	adv	With a grunting sound.
Gruntwork	n	An expression used to describe thankless and menial work. Grunt work can also refer to jobs that lack glamour and prestige or are boring and repetitive. This term may be derived from the slang term "grunts," which was used to describe low-ranking American soldiers during the Vietnam war.
Grure	n	Fright, terror, fearful agony, something frightful.
Grureful	adj	Frightful, terrible, awful.
Grurefully	adv	Terribly, frightfully, awfully.
Grythe	n	The spider, attercop.